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: You act like O'Reilly is a conservative authority. He isn't. The Pew Research Center is a liberal canard. You seemed to delete the reliable study of public school television watching.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 00:57, 17 March 2009 (EDT)
: You act like O'Reilly is a conservative authority. He isn't. The Pew Research Center is a liberal canard. You seemed to delete the reliable study of public school television watching.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 00:57, 17 March 2009 (EDT)
::Well, let's see. O'Reilly may not be a conservative authority, but it is fair to say that he was reinforcing a commonly held misconception about the show's audience by way of his prominence in pop culture. I've never heard the Pew Research Center referred to as "a liberal canard" (you are welcome to back up this assertion with proof), but in any case, their study ''did'' show O'Reilly's statement to be incorrect. Moreover, I fail to see how the average time spent watching television for public schooled teenagers is relevant, since 1) you have not shown that the statement "it is known for catering to an audience of public school teenagers" is true because there was no source for this claim and 2) the 60% who watch more than three hours a day were from Memphis schools, whereas the national average is 35%. From the existing source:
::''"On an average school day, more than 60 percent of the [Memphis] public school teens reported watching TV three or more hours a day compared with the U.S. average of 35 percent."''
::For the time being, I'm willing to compromise and include both the original language and citation and my new material. Sound fair? --[[User:SStaples|SStaples]] 08:12, 17 March 2009 (EDT)